It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t
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The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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